XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos

On 1/30/25 04:01 PM, pinnerite wrote:

I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
Has anyone any experience in this area?

Have you tried puppy?
Of course it depends on what desktop you want too.
I have a gparted-live ISO.

I also just installed Linux Mint on a thumb drive. It's just another partition, so I can
keep it up to date easily forever. Only issue is that when the kernel is updated it
writes the efi partition and I have restore it back to reset everything. It takes less
time to restore (the few times I've had to) than to figure a way around it happening.

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Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.6, Kernel 6.8.0-52-generic
Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.2
Alan K.

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XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

On 1/30/25 13:01, pinnerite wrote:

Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
really like either of them. <snip>

Why not? Explain.

I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
Has anyone any experience in this area?

Experience with Antix or Live distros?

Man, you really don't give much do you.

Explain why you don't like those 2 distros.
Explain what you're looking for *exactly*.
Define specifically what you mean by *better* alternative.

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XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos

On 2025-01-30 16:01, pinnerite wrote:

I often need to boot on a live drive (DVD or flashdrive) in order to
work on my hard drives/SSDs unmounted.

Up to now I have used Parted Magic or Knoppix but I actually do not
really like either of them. Their only attraction is that they seem to
be able to boot on any 86 based architecture.

I wondered if Antix might be a better alternative.
Has anyone any experience in this area?

The ssd failed on one of my laptops a few months ago, and had to be
replaced. I used a Mageia 9 Live Plasma flash drive to partition the new
drive with the included Gparted.

The Mageia Live isos will all boot on either legacy or UEFI systems. The
64-bit versions are available with Plasma, Gnome, or Xfce DEs, while the
32-bit version is only available with Xfce.

If you already have a Mageia system available, the best way to put the
iso onto a flash drive is to use Mageia's Isodumper. It was originally
created for the express purpose of creating Mageia flash drives. It's
the only thing I'll use for that.

TJ

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